Show your data work at The Fifth Elephant Winter

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Zainab Bawa

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Oct 11, 2026, 9:42:13 AMOct 11

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Hi everyone,

The Fifth Elephant Winter Edition is on 4 and 5 December 2026. This edition focuses on practical data analysis: finding and interpreting data, testing explanations, and showing what we learn.

The edition is being shaped by S Anand, Karthik Shashidhar, and Prasanna Bhogale, who are working with contributors to sharpen their questions, examine the evidence, and develop sessions others can learn from. The editors will love to see work from the DataMeet community at the conference.

Two formats may particularly interest people here:

20-minute Showcases: Walk us through a dataset, investigation, visual story, or tool you’ve built. Focus on one or two things and show how you worked through them.
Posters: Bring charts, maps, methods, or work in progress to discuss with fellow participants—including questions where you’d welcome critique or collaborators.

Aman Bhargava’s showcase, “How to tell people you love weather balloons,” has been selected. It follows his work turning radio signals, launch records, and archival research into an open dataset and a visual story about India’s weather-balloon infrastructure.

Other proposals under review include Anoop Asranna’s investigation of Bengaluru’s lake habitats using birdwatching data, Rajat Gururaj’s analysis of 110 exam-fraud incidents, and Omshivaprakash’s Research Desk for making Indian-language archives searchable and useful.

If you have something to share, please propose it. You don’t need a finished presentation: tell us the question, what you’ve tried or found, and what you can show.

Submit your proposal - http://has.gy/KaLO

DataMeet members are also welcome to attend and exchange ideas with fellow practitioners. Registration is through The Fifth Elephant’s annual membership, which includes admission to the Winter Edition.